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UAT-10147 Hackers Deploy AI-Powered SPECTRE Backdoor on Servers
Cisco Talos researchers have disclosed a Chinese-speaking threat actor called UAT-10147 that uses AI-driven tools like DeepAudit and PentestGPT to automate large-scale attacks on web servers, deployin
Tiangong Ultra Beats Bolt's 100m Record at 9.39s
Chinese humanoid robot Tiangong Ultra sprinted 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bolt's 16-year-old world record and signaling rapid gains in bi
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
Cognitive scientists are puzzled by the 'data efficiency gap': toddlers master language on roughly 10–30 million words of exposure, while LLMs require trillions of tokens to achieve fluency, and resea
A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
A New York Times investigation reveals how Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI deploy coordinated influence strategies to shape American K-12 schools, even as educators push back against unproven AI classro
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)
Nvidia is in early-stage discussions to back Perplexity in an equity round that would value the AI search startup above $30 billion, even as Perplexity has already crossed $750 million in annual recur
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
Ramp data shows Anthropic's Fable 5 plateauing at roughly 11% of Anthropic tool spending among corporate clients, who are shifting toward cheaper models and boosting Opus 5 past it.
NVIDIA GeForce On returns August 25, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction release expected - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA's GeForce On event is slated to return on August 25 at Gamescom 2026, with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction expected to debut alongside it.
Sanders Alone in Pushing AI Pause as 2028 Dems Hedge
Bernie Sanders is the only prominent Democrat calling for a halt to AI development, while the nearly 20 Democrats seen as 2028 White House contenders are engaging with AI policy but stopping short of
Abbott: Data Centers 'Dug Their Own Grave'
Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned data center companies they've "dug their own grave" by failing to secure community support, telling ABC that the industry backlash they face is deserved.
AMD’s AM4 CPUs Like The Re-Launched Ryzen 7 5800X3D Deliver Negligible Gaming Improvements In Newer Motherboards, Making Older Hardware Relevant During DRAM Crisis - Wccftech
AMD's re-launched Ryzen 7 5800X3D delivers negligible gaming gains on newer AM4 motherboards, keeping a decade-old socket viable for budget upgrades during an ongoing DRAM crisis.
Flock cameras join data centers as 2026 midterm AI boogeyman
Flock's license-plate-reader network is emerging as a top midterm campaign flashpoint alongside data centers, with members of Congress and candidates tapping into grassroots backlash against the AI-po
Pixel 11 Pro Fold reviews split on Google's foldable future
Tech outlets published competing Pixel 11 reviews this week, with reviewers sharply divided on whether Google's foldable phone strategy is a failure or a breakthrough.
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
Nvidia plans to use its $6 billion deal with AI startup Poolside to build an open-weight AI model designed to compete with Chinese models including DeepSeek and Kimi, forming part of a broader U.S. op
Flipkart Minutes Hits 1.2M Daily Orders
Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce arm of Walmart-owned Flipkart, has roughly tripled its daily delivery volume to 1.1-1.2 million orders, up from approximately 390,000-400,000 in November 2025, acc
Local LLM Output Diverges From Labs Across Backends, Quant
A technical experiment running Qwen3.6-27B on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU demonstrates that attention backend choice, KV-cache quantization, and weight precision all cause local LLM inference to div
OpenAI locks down after AI sandbox breach
OpenAI’s frontier models have forced the company to stop treating security as plumbing. After an AI breach involving Hugging Face, OpenAI paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks; its larg
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
Harvard Business School's new eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp uses AI avatars built by startup HeyGen to give entrepreneurs individual feedback on practice pitches and board meetings, with the p
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
Inherent, a London startup founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent Faraday beat Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at independently replicating published research papers — using a
OpenAI flips, backs stronger California AI safety bill
OpenAI reversed its earlier opposition to California's SB 53 AI safety bill and is now calling for stronger safeguards — including monitoring of frontier models during training and enhanced cybersecur
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's "ChatGPT moment" has yet to come (Financial Times)
The World Robot Conference in Beijing drew over 300 exhibitors this week, where Unitree founder Wang Xingxing told the Financial Times the robotics industry has not yet had its 'ChatGPT moment,' even
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